I just found the debug feature.. (never saw that before... wierd)
anyway, here's some more information:
(snippet from lyx -dbg init):
Reading language ukrainian
Reading language usorbian
Reading language welsh
Reading layouts...
About to read default...
Found default in /usr/local/share/lyx/ui/default.ui
LyX tmp dir: `/tmp/lyx_tmpdir194587m7VGL'
Reading lastfiles `/home/thomi/.lyx/lastfiles'...
Initializing LyX::init...done
Initializing LyXFunc
lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting
instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary.
Thanks !
Bye.
Aborted
and this is from the "all" debug option:
#
# CONVERTERS SECTION ##########################
#
CreateTmpDir: tempdir=`/tmp'
CreateTmpDir: mask=`lyx_tmpdir'
Temporary file `/tmp/lyx_tmpdir19604XDKNOu' created.
LyX tmp dir: `/tmp/lyx_tmpdir19604XDKNOu'
Reading lastfiles `/home/thomi/.lyx/lastfiles'...
Initializing LyX::init...done
Initializing LyXFunc
Recognised Fileformat: ppm
[GrahicsCacheItem::convertToDisplayFormat]
Attempting to convert image file:
/usr/local/share/lyx/images/banner.ppm
with displayed filename: /usr/local/share/lyx/images/banner.ppm
Recognised Fileformat: ppm
The file contains ppm format data.
The image loader can load the following directly:
BMP
GIF
JPEG
MNG
PBM
PGM
PNG
PPM
XBM
XPM
Of these, LyX recognises the following formats:
bmp, gif, jpg, pbm, pgm, png, ppm, xbm, xpm
No conversion needed (from == to)!
Loading image.
just Loaded.
pixmap isNull 0 xformed_pixmap_ isNull 0
Image loading succeeded.
GraphicsImage::getScaledDImensions()
params.scale : 100
width : 425
height : 290
pixmap isNull 0 xformed_pixmap_ isNull 0
setPixmap()
lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting
instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary.
Thanks !
Bye.
Aborted
any ideas? This is starting to get frantic (I was hoping to be able to use
this tool tonight...)
Thanks,